Bipancyclic subgraphs in random bipartite graphs

Abstract

A bipartite graph on 2n vertices is bipancyclic if it contains cycles of all even lengths from 4 to 2n. In this paper we prove that the random bipartite graph $G(n,n,p)$ with $p(n)\gg n^{-2/3}$ asymptotically almost surely has the following resilience property: Every Hamiltonian subgraph $G'$ of $G(n,n,p)$ with more than $(1/2+o(1))n^2p$ edges is bipancyclic. This result is tight in two ways. First, the range of $p$ is essentially best possible. Second, the proportion 1/2 of edges cannot be reduced. Our result extends a classical theorem of Mitchem and Schmeichel.